Monday, September 10, 2012

I Love Cats!

True confession: If you send me a link to a video with cats, or tell me there will be a cat somewhere in the middle of the video if I look closely, or even tell me it just features 1-nanosecond of something that remotely resembles a cat, I will watch it. In fact, I will not only watch it, I will watch it again. And again. And then want to watch the sequel and probably read the book if one exists.

The other day I got the full package when a good friend sent me a link to the absurdly, impossibly ridiculous faux E-Harmony video of "Debbie who loves cats," that has around 22+ million hits of which I've contributed about 5 or 6. If you've seen it already, I apologize in advance, and if you haven't, well, here it is. (Go on, you know you want to watch it. Again.)

After about the 6th time viewing it, I then realized there were spin-off videos of "Debbie": satires and diatribes, posers and posters and posts and so on. My favorite was the "Songify" version.

And then while I was laughing hysterically, tears at the corners of my eyes, I suddenly took a look at my office and computer table (yes, I know I should have been working on my writing rather than watching viral videos. . .). I was surrounded by cat images, i.e.,

My hand was resting on a cat mousepad.

A Mexican cat figurine was on my desk.

My favorite cat tote bag was on a chair facing me.

I was wearing cat earrings.

The binder holding my WIP, a nonfiction manuscript on pet ownership was covered in a cat collage I'd made to inspire my writing.

A stack of cat stickers was on the shelf of my computer hutch ready to be placed in my journal.

And for the last few weeks, I've been drawing cats and kittens in my sketchbook.

I was as bad as "Debbie"!

I loved their ears!

I loved their whiskers and noses!

And their little bow ties!

I had a problem!

Or maybe I just love cats?

Tip of the Day: What do you love? What's your passion? Basing our writing and creativity on the subjects we love is a surefire way to guarantee a constant source of inspiration.﻿

2 comments:

I wish I could send you a picture of my cats in my house. I am a dog person, and these 2 are stray cats. They are de-clawed and fixed. Even without the yearly visit they cost someone $500 each in getting spayed and declawed. I don't have ANY IMAGES of cats. I do have 2 cats, though. I hope you keep drawing them!

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I'm the author of 8 books and write across the genres. My last novel, OVERTAKEN, is a literary Gothic set in Greece, London, and all the spaces of the imagination. My books for young readers include BETTER THAN PERFECT, a YA set in New Zealand, and THE GREAT SCARAB SCAM, an Egyptian mystery for the middle grades. I hope to have my new novel, GHAZAL, finished by the end of the year. When I'm not writing, I enjoy working with hand-built pottery, watercolors, found poetry, and collage.